SCLC head: Michelle Obama treated more roughly than her husband, because of her slave heritage
AJC.com
Savannah — Michelle Obama has been the recipient of rougher treatment than her husband for a reason, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said Saturday.
One has ancestors who were slaves and the other doesn’t, said Charles Steele Jr., president and CEO of the decades-old, Atlanta-based civil rights group.
Barack Obama is “of the system. He’s going to be in the system,” Steele told a morning gathering of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials.
“Why are they attacking Michelle Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and not really attacking, to that degree, her husband?” Steele asked. “Because he has no slave blood in him. He does not have any slave blood in him, but Michelle does.
“This system is an issue. I don’t care what you say. You can’t expect the system that enslaved you save you,” Steele said. (more…)
Now Whites have the ability to know the strain of blood in Black folks?
We give Whites credit for more things than we give ourselves. Pathetic!
Michelle Obama (a.k.a. a STRONG Black woman) inserted HERSELF in this race by making political comments that were controversial to many and yet she and her supporters expect an affirmative action reaction? She is not the first wife of a politician who as been reamed by the public for something they either said or did, yet somehow her case is ‘different’? If she is truly a STRONG Black woman (and I have no doubt in my mind that she isn’t), she can handle it–just like wives of every of past president and presidential candidate.
If folks have to interpret ANY criticism towards her (and her husband for that matter) as some sort of racial attack–even when it is a criticism based solely on policy or non-racial issues, then perhaps the ‘strong’ label needs to be questioned.
Lastly, note the distinction between the words “attacked” vs. ‘criticized” as you will see this in commentary all throughout the net. When it is someone you support that is being questioned, it is called an “attack”. If you don’t support them, you are just being “critical”. This applies across the board.
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